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Henry H. Harrison was a minister, shoemaker, teacher, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Chickasaw County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875. He was born in Alabama. He married and had seven…
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Henry S. Harmon (c. 1839 – December 24, 1889) was an attorney and politician in Florida after the Civil War. He was the first African-American to be admitted to the bar in Florida.
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Henry Highland Garnet (December 23, 1815 – February 13, 1882) was an American abolitionist, minister, educator, orator, and diplomat. Having escaped as a child from slavery in Maryland with his family, he grew up in New York City. He was educated at the…
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Henry Hunter Craig (died 1876) was an American grocer, barber and politician who represented Montgomery County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872. Henry Hunter Craig was born enslaved in the state of Virginia, United States.…
1837–1906
Henry Johnson Maxwell (May 3, 1837 – August 26, 1906) was an African-American lawyer, soldier in the Union Army, state senator, and a postmaster in South Carolina.
1902–1983
Henry Johnson Richardson Jr. (June 21, 1902 – December 5, 1983) was a civil rights lawyer and activist, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1932–36), and a judge in Marion County, Indiana. He helped secure passage of Indiana's school…
1933–2025
Henry Leander Marsh III (December 10, 1933 – January 23, 2025) was an American civil rights lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Marsh was elected by the city council as the first African-American mayor of Richmond, Virginia in 1977. He was elected to the…
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Henry L. Shrewsbury (born c. 1847) was an American teacher and Reconstruction era state legislator in South Carolina. He was described as a free mullato, and represented Chesterfield County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until…
1938–2005
Henry Latimer (January 22, 1938 – January 24, 2005) was the first African-American circuit court judge in Broward County, and was in line to become the first African-American president of the Florida Bar when he was killed in a car accident in South…
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Henry Lee Moon (July 20, 1901 – June 7, 1985) was an American journalist, writer and civil rights activist.
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Henry Lee Morey (April 8, 1841 – December 29, 1902) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and a politician and U.S. congressman after the war. He was a cousin of James Whitcomb, governor of Indiana (1843–1848) and United…
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Henry Lincoln Johnson (July 27, 1870 – September 10, 1925) was an African-American attorney and politician from the state of Georgia. He is best remembered as one of the most prominent African-American Republicans of the first two decades of the 20th…
1835–
Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi. Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He served in the…
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Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834, South Carolina, U.S. – May 8, 1915, Ontario, Canada) was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he…
1809–1878
Henry Moxley (1809 – December 12, 1878) was an African-American businessman, religious leader and activist in Buffalo, New York. He is known for his work to promote school integration and the education of African-American children.
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Henry N. Jeter (October 7, 1851 – August 4, 1938) was a Baptist minister and social justice activist from Newport, Rhode Island. He was minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport for 42 years before founding a pair of organizations seeking to aid poor,…
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Henry O. Wagoner (February 27, 1816 – January 27, 1901) was an abolitionist and civil rights activist in Chicago and Denver. In the 1830s, as a free black man in Maryland, he worked on a farm and worked to free slaves with a loose group of individuals that…
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Henry Plummer Cheatham (December 27, 1857 – November 29, 1935) was an educator, farmer and politician, elected as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893 from North Carolina. He was one of only five African…
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Henry P. Jacobs (July 8, 1825 – December 14, 1899) was an American politician and educator. Jacobs was born in Alabama. He escaped slavery to Canada and then moved to Michigan before settling in Natchez, Mississippi after the American Civil War.
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Henry P. Scott was a grocer, farmer, sheriff, tax collector, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Mississippi and enslaved at birth. He was a delegate to the 1865 Mississippi black convention at Vicksburg. He was elected to represent…
1871–1958
Henry Proctor Slaughter (September 17, 1871 – February 14, 1958) was an American journalist, printer, and bibliographer. Slaughter collected resources that documented African American history, with a special focus on the subjects of slavery, the…
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Henry Raby was an American politician, who represented Natchitoches Parish in the Louisiana State House of Representatives from 1872 to 1876. He was documented as being "Colored". He was a Republican. During his time in office, Raby introduced a bill for a…
1917–1981
Henry B. Richardson (April 6, 1917 – February 26, 1981) was an American soldier and politician who became the first African American to serve in the New Hampshire General Court. Elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1974, he served two…
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Henry Riley was a state legislator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era. He represented Orangeburg County. He was one of several African American legislators expelled from the legislature toward the end of the Reconstruction period.
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